How many frickin' times are we going to greenlight this? We get it: Detroit's a shiathole. It's always been a shiathole. It always will be a shiathole. Right now, it just happens to be a shiathole with empty buildings and will be for some time.

The Weather Channel is losing ratings because people can get weather reports from their phones or the internet instead of watch a rotating regional report on tv. Only old people still watch it. So they are attempting to revitalize their market share with reality programming.

TheMaskedArmadillo:Still, I find these photos fascinating and heart-breaking at the same time...

While is heartbreaking, no one ever talks about the good things going on there. A lot of the empty buildings downtown are being converted into office and residential space, including the David Whitney Building, which was pictured.

It seems to me that environmental scientists and groups should be chomping at the bit here. Land is plentiful, dirt cheap, and heavily contaminated: what better testbed could you possibly have for experiments in heavy-duty land reclamation/rehabilitation? Land sales could probably give the city a much-needed infusion of cash, too.

cgraves67:Enuratique: Why the hell is this coming from The Weather Channel?

Their attempts to create non-weather content pisses me the hell off.

The Weather Channel is losing ratings because people can get weather reports from their phones or the internet instead of watch a rotating regional report on tv. Only old people still watch it. So they are attempting to revitalize their market share with reality programming.

jonas opines:Fallout 4 should be set in Detroit, clearly. They'd not even need to do a conversion, they could just take the existing pics and model the levels off of reality.

I had an idea for a video game like that, set in an alternative history where the 2008 ressesion was even worse and ended up bankrupting the government and causing many areas in the USA to become ruled by drug cartel-like gangs.

Most of those places aren't as trashed as I thought they would be. Around here, anything abandoned is completely ripped apart, as in even wall receptacles are bashed in.It would be neat to refurbish and move into some small industrial building, in a hipster kind of way.Except for the poverty, crime, violence, vermin, racism......

Enuratique:cgraves67: Enuratique: Why the hell is this coming from The Weather Channel?

Their attempts to create non-weather content pisses me the hell off.

The Weather Channel is losing ratings because people can get weather reports from their phones or the internet instead of watch a rotating regional report on tv. Only old people still watch it. So they are attempting to revitalize their market share with reality programming.

That's funny coming from someone who claims to work in "disaster restoration" in New Orleans. You obviously aren't very good at your job.

Yeah, I forgot, New Orleans is still completely underwater, we're bankrupt, and there's no hope in sight!!! Oh wait, the city is almost completely recovered and neighborhoods that were war-zones or worse before the storm are now pleasant communities. Oh, and small businesses are booming. Oh, and all the projects the company I used to work for are still operational, which was a huge chunk of New Orleans including Tulane University, Loyola University, University of New Orleans, Delgado CC, Xavier University, all of the Wal-Marts on the Gulf Coast, Audobon Aquarium, Audobon Zoo, nearly all of the major condo and luxury apartment buildings, every single hotel/motel our employees stayed in from top-to-bottom, all of the casinos, and really I could go on all day, but I think you get the point. Which is that you have no clue what you're talking about, not even in the slightest. But, hey, atleast you got someone to pay attention to you today!